Bigger, older powers slumber beneath the surface of her world. Thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New, Hessa realizes there is far more on the line than securing a life beyond her own death. Hall of Smoke is an adult fantasy novel, published January 19th, 2021 by Titan Books in the UK, North America, Australia and New Zealand. Soon Hessa's trust in her goddess weakens with every unheeded prayer. Hall of Smoke is an epic fantasy series with a Viking flavour, packed with action, meddling gods, and an atmospheric world of pines and mountains and creatures that want to eat you.

But her journey reveals a harrowing truth: the gods are dying and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. As clans from the north and legionaries from the south tear through her homeland, slaughtering everyone in their path Hessa strives to win back her goddess' favour.īeset by zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly-awakened demons at every turn, Hessa burns her path towards redemption and revenge. Grieving and alone, Hessa - the last Eangi - must find the traveller and atone for her weakness and secure her place with her loved ones in the High Halls. Hall of Smoke está ambientado en un mundo premoderno, prácticamente ancestral. Es una novela independiente que comienza engañosamente pequeña y se desarrolla en asombrosas proporciones épicas. While she is gone, raiders raze her village and obliterate the Eangi priesthood. Hall of Smoke es la primera novela de HM largo, y qué sobresaliente debut de fantasía épica. Well, look no further dear readers because Hall of Smoke is here for you and it is the perfect combination of all of these elements and so much more. I received a free review copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Banished for disobeying her goddess's command to murder a traveller, she prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside. It’s stand-alone fantasy that starts deceptively small and grows into epic proportions. Hessa is an Eangi: a warrior priestess of the Goddess of War, with the power to turn an enemy's bones to dust with a scream.

Synopsis: Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.Įpic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.

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